Peninsula College Entrepreneur Institute

Timothy Visi, founder of Umami Sea Vegetables won the top prize of $5,000 at the 2009 Entrepreneurial Challenge.   Umami Sea Vegtables grows edible seaweed, including nori, ogo, flatbrush, dulse and wakame with plans to start selling the varieties to grocery stores and restaurants across Western Washington.

The two runners-up were BSG Enterprises, a bookkeeping service for small businesses owned by Becky McGinty, and RSoftware Co., an online educational platform run by CEO Craig Conway and partner Pat Owens.  Each received a $1,000 cash award.

The other finalists were SEMinArts LLC, a training, consulting and marketing company founded by Carolyn Cooper of Port Angeles; the Port Angeles Farmers Market, open every Saturday at the Clallam County Courthouse parking lot and managed by Michele d’Hemecourt; and IMPACT Product Development & Marketing, owned by Brad Griffith of Sequim, which helps inventors get their products to market and makes competition kits for Boy Scouts.

This is the 3^rd year for the Entrepreneur Challenge, which is a business plan competition hosted by the Incubator @ Lincoln Center and the Peninsula College Entrepreneur Institute and generously sponsored by First Federal and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.